Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 17 APRIL 1997

08:00 A1.01 Differential Measurement of the Ratio of Cross Sections for Double and Single Ionization of He by Fast Protons

W.R. DeHaven, C.L. Cocke, C. Dilley, A. Landers (Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University), E.Y. Kamber (Physics Dept., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI 49008)

08:22 A1.02 The Stern-Gerlach Effect for Electron Beams

J. J. Schwendiman (Swarthmore College), H. Batelaan, T. J. Gay (University of Nebraska)

08:44 A1.03 A classical examination of the Stark effect in hydrogen

Andrew Hooker, Chris H. Greene, William Clark (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0440)

09:06 A1.04 Time-Dependent Approach to Electron--Atom Scattering.

Goran Krilov (Drake University)

08:00 A2.01 Mixing of a Passive Scalar in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Benjamin S. Williams (Dept. of Physics, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041)

08:36 A2.02 Femtosecond laser-induced breakdown in water

Chris B. Schaffer (Harvard University, Department of Physics)

09:12 A2.03 Axions and Spin-Mass Coupling

Andrew Youdin (University of California, Berkeley)

09:48 A2.04 Surface Orientational Ordering at the Critical Interface of an Ionic Ising Mixture

Craig Caylor (Cornell University)

08:00 A3.01 Experiments with Stored Ions at the Boarder Line Between Atomic = and Nuclear Physics

H.-Juergen Kluge (GSI, Darmstadt and University of Heidelberg, Germany)

08:36 A3.02 The Application of Ion Storage Rings to Atomic and Molecular Physics

Sheldon Datz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6377)

09:12 A3.03 Fundamental Nuclear Physics Measurements with Storage Rings

H.O. Meyer (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405)

09:48 A3.04 Laser Trapped Francium, a New Laboratory for Precision Measurements

Gene D. Sprouse (Physics Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800)

08:00 A4.01 Status of Federal Agency Support for K-12 and Undergraduate Math/Science Education Programs

Richard Stephens (Science Education Consultant, 8304 Brewster Drive, Alexandria, VA 22308-2106)

08:36 A4.02 A Congressional Perspective on Federal Funding for Science Education

Tom Weimer (Staff Director, Subcommittee on Basic Research, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, B-374 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515)

09:12 A4.03 An Agency Perspective on Federal Funding for Science Education

Jean E. Vanski (Deputy Director for Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation)

09:48 A4.04 Federal Funding and the Non-Profit Professional Societies: A Relationship of Missions

Gerald Wheeler (Executive Director, National Science Teachers Association)

10:24 A4.05 Panel and Audience Discussion

Moderator Rush Holt (Princetone University Plasma Physics Laboratory), Panelists:, Richard Stephens (Science Education Consultant), Tom Weimer (Staff Director, Subcommittee on Basic Research, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives), Jean E. Vanski (Deputy Director for Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation), Gerald Wheeler (Executive Director, National Science Teachers Association)

08:00 A5.01 Collective and independent-particle motion of electrons in atoms

R. Stephen Berry (The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637)

08:50 A5.02 Correlation operators for highly excited molecules and atoms

Michael E. Kellman (The University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403)

09:40 A5.03 Collective and Independent-Particle Motion of Nucleons in Nuclei

Witold Nazarewicz (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, and ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831)

08:00 A6.01 Precision Measurements with Atom Interferometers

David E. Pritchard (Physics Department and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139)

08:36 A6.02 Precision Rotation Measurement with an Atom Interferometer

Philippe Bouyer (Groupe d'Optique Atomique, IOTA, Orsay)

09:12 A6.03 Gravity-Induced Neutron Interference Phases Using a Two-Wavelength Difference Technique

S. A. Werner (Physics Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211.)

09:48 A6.04 Searches for the Birefringence of the Vacuum

Adrian Melissinos (University of Rochester)

08:00 A8.01 Nuclear Structure Theory Calculations Using the Model Construction Library

W. Younes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rutgers University)

08:12 A8.02 On the Spin Dependent Nuclear Level Density

A. Anzaldo-Meneses (Area de Fisica. Depto. Ciencias Basicas, Univ.Autonoma Metropolitana-Mexico D.F.)

08:24 A8.03 Large-basis shell-model calculation of ^10C \rightarrow ^10B Fermi matrix element

Petr Navrátil, Bruce R. Barrett (University of Arizona), Erich Ormand (Louisiana State University)

08:36 A8.04 Is there an excited state at E_x = 1.3~MeV in ^11Li?

Steven Karataglidis, B. Alex Brown, Gregers Hansen (NSCL, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI 48824), Peter Dortmans, Ken Amos (School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 3052)

08:48 A8.05 Ground State Correlations Using exp(S) Method for the Argonne-v18 Potential.

Jochen Heisenberg, Bogdan Mihaila (University of New Hampshire)

09:00 A8.06 Odd-Even Nucleus Calculation Using exp(S) Method.

Bogdan Mihaila, Jochen Heisenberg (University of New Hampshire)

09:12 A8.07 First-forbidden \beta decay of ^17N and ^17Ne.

D. J. Millener (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:24 A8.08 The First Experiment with the S800 Spectrograph at MSU

J. A. Caggiano, W. Benenson, D. Bazin, B. Davids, B. Sherrill, M. Steiner, J. Yurkon, A. Zeller ((MSU/NSCL))

09:36 A8.09 The Spectroscopy of ^60Ni.

W.D. Weintraub, H-Q. Jin, W. Reviol, L.L. Riedinger (Univ. of Tennessee), C Baktash, M.J. Brinkman, D.J. Dean, C-H. Yu (ORNL), M. Devlin, D.R. LaFosse, D.G. Sarantites (Washington Univ.), M. Leddy (Univ of Manchester), I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli (LBNL), D. Rudolph (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

09:48 A8.10 Spectroscopy of ^72Kr with n-\gamma\gamma coincidences at GAMMASPHERE

P. A. Hausladen, J. E. Bush, K. R. Pohl, D. P. Balamuth (University of Pennsylvania), C. J. Lister, D. J. Blumenthal, J. Schwartz (ANL), M. J. Leddy, B. J. Varley (Manchester University, U.K.)

08:00 A9.01 Mapping the Phase Diagram of Nuclear Matter

Alfredo Aranda, Jorge A. López (University of Texas at El Paso), Claudio O. Dorso, Victor Furci (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

08:12 A9.02 Preferred Modes of Decay in Nuclear Fragmentation

Alfredo Aranda, Jorge A. López, Zehua Wu (University of Texas at El Paso)

08:24 A9.03 Exclusive Studies of Preequilibrium and Equilibrium Phhennomena at Intermediate Energies.

D.S. Ginger, K. Kwiatkowski, E. Cornell, R.T. De Souza, W. Hsi, V.E. Viola, G. Wang, N.R. Yoder (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN), R.G. Korteling (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada)

08:36 A9.04 Non-thermal Scaling and Non-binomial Reducibility in Nuclear Multifragmentation?

Jan Tõke, Dileep K. Agnihotri, Ben Djerroud, Wojtek Skulski, Wolf-Udo Schröder (Dept. of Chemistry and NSRL, University of Rochester)

08:48 A9.05 Time Scale for Multifragmentation in Light-Ion-Induced Reactions.

G. Wang, D.S. Bracken, E. Renshaw Foxford, W. Hsi, K. Kwiatkowski, K.B. Morley, V.E. Viola (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN), R.G. Korteling (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada), R. Legrain, E.C. Pollacco, C. Volant (DAPNIA/SPhN, CEA SACLAY, France)

09:00 A9.06 Excitation Energy and Temperature Evolution in the 4.8 GeV ^3He + ^natAG, ^197Au Reactions

K. Kwiatkowski, D.S. Bracken, E. Renshaw Foxford, K.B. Morley, V.E. Viola (Indiana University,Bloomington, IN), R. Legrain, E.C. Pollacco, C. Colant (DAPNIA?SPhN, CEA SACLAY, France), R.G. Korteling (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada)

09:12 A9.07 Multifragmentation Induced by GeV Proton and \pi^- Beams.

W.-C. Hsi, K. Kwiatkowski, G. Wang, D.S. Bracken, E. Cornell, D.S. Ginger, V.E. Viola, N.R. Yoder (Indiana University), H. Breuer (Univ. of Maryland), F. Nogues-Gimeno, E. Ramakrishnan, D. Rowland, S.J. Yennello (Texas A & M University), M.J. Huang, W.G. Lynch, M.B. Tsang, H. Xi (Michigan State), R.G. Korteling (Simon Fraser University), Y.Y. Chu, S. Gushue, L.P. Remsburg (Brookhaven National Lab)

08:00 A10.01 Study of the Scalar Form Factor and Light Quark Mass with \tau \rightarrow (3\pi)\nu Decays.

Jason Hinson (Purdue University), CLEO Collaboration

08:12 A10.02 Limits on the Weak Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments of the \tau from Azimuthal Asymmetries

L3 Collaboration

A10.03

08:36 A10.04 Search for Neutrinoless Decays of the \tau Lepton

L3 Collaboration

08:48 A10.05 Multiprong tau decays into kaons

Giulio Piana (University of Genova and INFN,Genova,Italy)

09:00 A10.06 Measurement of the Branching Ratios of the \tau into Leptons with the L3 Detector at LEP

L3 Collaboration

09:12 A10.07 Predictions for Prompt Muons from Heavy Quark Production in the Atmosphere

Elizabeth S. Hafen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:24 A10.08 Measurements of D^-_s \rightarrow \tau^- øverline\nu_\tau and a new limit for B^- \rightarrow \tau^- øverline\nu_\tau

L3 Collaboration

09:36 A10.09 A New Measurement of the Electron-Neutrino Angular Correlation in Free Neutron Beta Decay

Maynard Dewey, Fred Wietfeldt (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Sergey Balashov, Yuri Mostovoi (Kurchatov Institute), Boris Yerozolimsky (Harvard University)

09:48 A10.10 Distribution in q^2 of the Decay \bar B^0 \rightarrow D^*+l^-\bar\nu

Chris L. Darling, Alice Bean (University of Kansas), Kay Kinoshita (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), CLEO Collaboration

10:00 A10.11 A Study of \Lambda_c-electron Correlations in B Meson Decay Using CLEO II Data

Lin Zhou (Univ. of Kansas), CLEO Collaboration

10:12 A10.12 Search for exclusive b\rightarrow u semileptonic decays

David Lange (University of California, Santa Barbara.), CLEO Collaboration

10:24 A10.13 Measurement of Charmless Semileptonic B Decays

John O'Neill (University of Minnesota), CLEO Collaboration

10:36 A10.14 A Study of B \rightarrow D \ell\nu

Ye Liu (Cornell University), CLEO Collaboration

08:00 A11.01 Measurement of M_W Using the W\rightarrow e\nu Transverse Mass and the Electron Transverse Momentum with the DØ\ Detector

Ashutosh Kotwal (Columbia University, New York, NY)

08:12 A11.02 Direct measurement of W boson width at CDF

William J. Ashmanskas, CDF Collaboration

08:24 A11.03 Results on W-Pair Production in e^+e^- Interactions at \sqrts of 161 and 172 GeV

L3 Collaboration

08:36 A11.04 Measurement of \mathrmM_W from Direct Reconstruction Methods Using the OPAL Detector at \protect\sqrts = 172~GeV

Douglas A. Glenzinski (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)

08:48 A11.05 Direct Measurement Of the W Boson Width at DØ

José Luis González-Solís (CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico)

09:00 A11.06 Measurement of the W mass with the DELPHI detector at LEP.

Chris Parkes (University of Oxford,Oxford,UK)

09:12 A11.07 Measurement of M_W Using the Transverse Mass Ratio of W and Z Bosons with the DØ\ Detector

Dennis Shpakov (State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY)

09:24 A11.08 Measurement of W-pair production in the process e^+e^-\rightarrow W^+W^- \rightarrow\ q\barqq\barq at \sqrts of 161 GeV

L3 Collaboration

09:36 A11.09 Minimizing the Uncertainty due to Parton Distributions and the Production Mechanism in the Precision Determination of the W Mass

Michael Rijssenbeek (State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY)

09:48 A11.10 \Lambda_s Hyperons Associated with High-E_T Jets in CDF

T. Devlin (Rutgers University)

10:00 A11.11 Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF

CDF Collaboration

10:12 A11.12 Gluon Radiation in Top Quark Production and Decay

Troy Andre, Lynne H. Orr (University of Rochester), T. Stelzer (University of Illinois), W.J. Stirling (University of Durham)

10:24 A11.13 Measurement of the Top Quark Mass and Production Cross Section Using the Hadronic Decay Channel

Tommaso Dorigo (Universita di Padova), CDF Collaboration

10:36 A11.14 Measurement of the P_T Distribution of b-jets in tøverlinet Events

Rocio Vilar, CDF Collaboration

10:48 A11.15 Measurement of the t\bart Production Cross Section at CDF

CDF Collaboration

08:00 A12.01 Neutron Star as a General-relativistic Unipolar Inductor and Gamma-ray Pulsars

A.K. Harding, A. Muslimov (NASA/GSFC)

08:12 A12.02 Burst-related pulse phase delay in the Bursting Pulsar

Michael J. Stark (Univ. of MD / GSFC), Altan Baykal (METU, Ankara, Turkey), Tod E. Strohmayer (USRA / GSFC), Jean H. Swank (GSFC)

08:24 A12.03 Strong-Field General Relativity and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in X-Ray Binaries

Philip Kaaret (Columbia Unversity), Eric Ford, Kaiyou Chen (Columbia University)

08:36 A12.04 An Intrinsic Signature for a Black Hole

Lev Titarchuk (NASA/GSFC and George Mason University/CSI), Thomas Zannias (NASA/GSFC)

08:48 A12.05 SPECTRAL -- TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS IN ACCRETING BLACK HOLES

Demosthenes Kazanas (NASA/GSFC), Xin-Min Hua (NASA/GSFC -- NAS/NRC), Lev Titarchuk (NASA/GSFC and GMU/CSI)

09:00 A12.06 GRIS Measurement of High Velocity ^26Al from the Galactic Center Region

J. Tueller, S. D. Barthelmy, L. M. Bartlett, N. Gehrels, J. Naya, A. Parsons, B. J. Teegarden (NASA/GSFC), M. Leventhal (UMd College Park)

09:12 A12.07 Gamma-Ray Limits on Galactic ^60Fe Nucleosyntheis From The GRIS Balloon Instrument

J.E. Naya, S. D. Barthelmy, L. M. Bartlett, N. Gehrels, A. Parsons, B. J. Teegarden, J. Tueller (NASA/GSFC), M. Leventhal (UMd College Park)

09:24 A12.08 GRIS Detection of Positron Annihilation Radiation from the Milky-Way Galaxy

L. Cheng, M. Leventhal (UMD), J. Tueller, N. Gehrels, A. Parsons, B. J. Teegarden, S. D. Barthelmy, J. E. Naya, L. M. Bartlett (NASA/GSFC)

09:36 A12.09 Small Angle X-ray Scattering and Halos from Dust

Randall Smith, Eli Dwek (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

09:48 A12.10 TeV Energy Spectrum of a Huge Flare from Markarian 421

Jeffrey Zweerink, D.A. Carter-Lewis, M. Catanese, F. Krennrich, R.C. Lamb, G. Mohanty, F.W. Samuelson (Iowa State University), C.W. Akerlof, M.S. Schubnell (University of Michigan), S.B. Biller, A.M. Hillas, A.J. Rodgers, J.H. Rose (University of Leeds), P.J. Boyle, A.C. Breslin, D.J. Fegan, J. Bussons Gordo, R.W. Lessard, J.E. McEnery, C. Masterson, J. Quinn (University College Dublin), J.H. Buckley, T.C. Weekes (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), M.F. Cawley (St. Patrick's College), J.P. Finley, J.A. Gaidos, G.H. Sembroski, R. Srinivasan, C.L. Wilson (Purdue University), P. Moriarty (Regional Technical College)

10:00 A12.11 \parindent .6in \baselineskip 1.00\normalbaselineskip

F.W. Stecker (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Salamon (University of Utah)

10:12 A12.12 Spallation of Fe in Black Hole Atmospheres

Jeff Skibo (NRL)

10:24 A12.13 Momentum and Particle Transport in Plasmas Subject to Gravity and in the Presence of Magnetic Fields

B. Coppi (MIT), P.S. Coppi (Yale University)

10:36 A12.14 Is the Rate of \gamma-Ray Bursts Constant?

Gerald Share (Naval Research Laboratory), Daniel Messina (SFA, Inc.)

10:48 A12.15 Halo Microlenses, Remnants, and Gamma-ray Bursts

Brian D. Fields, Grant J. Mathews (Notre Dame), David N. Schramm (Chicago/FNAL)

08:00 A13.01 Light Quark Masses from Lattice QCD

Rajan Gupta, Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:36 A13.02 Neutrino Oscillation Phenomenology with Plaquette Variables

Thomas J. Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

09:00 A13.03 Strangeness in the Nucleon on the Light-Cone

Wally Melnitchouk, Manuel Malheiro (University of Maryland)

09:24 A13.04 Complete \cal O(p^6) calculation of K_L\rightarrow \gamma\gamma and K_L\rightarrow\gamma\ell^+\ell^- in Chiral Perturbation Theory

Zhang Longzhe (Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668)

10:00 A13.05 The Yukawa coupling in three dimensions

Gerry McKeon (University of Western Ontario)

08:00 A14.01 Measurement of W + n Jet Cross Sections at CDF

Jay R. Dittmann (Duke University), CDF Collaboration

08:12 A14.02 Properties of Jets in W Boson Events at CDF

W. Kowald (Duke University), CDF Collaboration

08:24 A14.03 Measurement of the W(\rightarrow e\nu) p_T Distribution at CDF

Hiroyuki Minato, CDF Collaboration

08:36 A14.04 Measurement of the longitudinal momentum distribution of Z bosons produced in p \bar p collisions at \sqrts=1.8 TeV.

Leonel Magana (CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico)

08:48 A14.05 Estimation of \alpha_s from Z p_T distribution.

Raúl Hernández-Montoya (CINVESTAV Mexico City, Mexico)

09:00 A14.06 p_T Dependence of Inclusive Z Boson Production

Dylan Casey (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY)

09:12 A14.07 Two-Jet Differential Cross Section at CDF

Frank Chlebana, Robert K. Plunkett (Fermilab), CDF Collaboration

09:24 A14.08 Dijet Cross Sections at \sqrts=630 and 1800 GeV at D-Zero

Zarah J. Casilum (SUNY, Stony Brook)

09:36 A14.09 Fragmentation Functions in pQCD

Simona Rolli (INFN-Pavia)

09:48 A14.10 Direct Photon Production in \pi^-N and pN Interactions

Leonard Apanasevich (Michigan State University), E706 Collaboration (UC-Davis, Delhi, Fermilab, Michigan State, Northeastern, Oklahoma, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rochester)

10:00 A14.11 Production of High Mass \pi^0\pi^0's and Double Direct Photons in \pi^-N and pN Interactions

Michael Begel (University of Rochester), E706 Collaboration (UC--Davis, Delhi, Fermilab, Michigan State, Northeastern, Oklahoma, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rochester)

08:00 A16.01 Bose-Einstein Condensation of Lithium

Curtis C. Bradley (Physics Department and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005.)

08:36 A16.02 Quantum Coherence and Interference Effects in Laser Physics: Lasers Without Inversion

Dmitri E. Nikonov (UCSB)

09:12 A16.03 Atomic Electron Wave Packet Interference and Control

Michael W. Noel (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901)

09:48 A16.04 Precise Measurement of Parity Nonconserving Optical Rotation in Atomic Thallium as a Test of the Electroweak Standard Model

P.A. Vetter (University of Washington, Seattle)

10:24 A16.05 One- and Two- Electron Ionization of Atoms by a Strong Laser Field

Barry C. Walker (State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.)